Fans Get Schooled One Last Time

 

Coming to Digital March 7 and DVD March 8

Starring Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie,

Keith David, Paget Brewster, with Ken Jeong & Academy-Award^® Winner Jim Rash

With Hilarious Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (January 26, 2016) – School is back in session for the last time March 8 when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE FINAL SEASON? on DVD. Dan Harmon’s fan favorite comedy, now a cult classic, returns with its fine ensemble cast, including Joel McHale (TV’s “The Soup”), Gillian Jacobs (TV’s “Girls”), Danny Pudi (TV’s “Greek”), Alison Brie (TV’s “Mad Men”), Keith David (TV’s “Enlisted”), Paget Brewster (TV’s “Grandfathered”), with Ken Jeong (TV’s “Dr. Ken”) and Academy Award^® winner Jim Rash (Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; The Descendants, 2011). The sixth season has the Greendale Community College band of misfits reaching the school’s year-end, still questioning their future, even as they cherish their past. COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE FINAL SEASON? will also be available on Digital March 7.

COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE FINAL SEASON? contains all 13 half-hour episodes as well as featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel. “Community Trivia” has the cast and crew of Community answering trivia questions about the last six seasons of the show. “Six Seasons and a Finale” takes the viewer on set during the taping of the final episode to hear what Dan Harmon and cast thought about filming Season 6. The “Gag Reel” gives viewers a chance to laugh along with the cast and crew as they crack each other up during the taping of Season 6! Also included are six never-before-seen deleted scenes saved from the cutting room floor.

Guest stars in the hilarious sixth season include Nathan Fillion (TV’s “Castle), Seth Green (TV’s “Family Guy”), Steve Guttenberg (Three Men and a Baby), musician Lisa Loeb, Billy Zane (upcoming Zoolander 2), and many more.

SYNOPSIS:
Hacked e-mails, virtual reality, schlocky sci-fi filmmaking, grifting, forbidden paintball, a giant hand, a wedding and a stage adaptation of The Karate Kid… Welcome back for one crazy year at Greendale Community College! Though the Study Group-turned-“Committee to Save Greendale” has succeeded in their mission (well, almost), Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) has hired a by-the-books administrative consultant (Paget Brewster) to help improve the school’s day-to-day operations. This, of course, doesn’t exactly sit well with everyone in the group and, as a result, they’ll see changes good and bad at their beloved school.

COMMUNITY is a Universal Television production in association with Sony Pictures Television. 

COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE FINAL SEASON? episodes include:

Ladders

Lawnmower Maintenance & Postnatal Care

Basic Crisis Room Decorum

Queer Studies & Advanced Waxing

Laws of Robotics & Party Rights

Basic Email Security

Advanced Safety Feature

Intro to Recycled Cinema

Grifting 101

Basic RV Repair & Palmistry

Modern Espionage

Wedding Videography

Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television

DVD Special Features Include:

• “Community Trivia” The cast and crew of Community answer trivia questions on the last 6 seasons of the show
• “Six Seasons and a Finale” Go on the set during the taping of the final episode to hear what Dan Harmon and cast thought about filming Season 6. 
• Gag Reel:  Laugh along with the cast and crew of Community as they crack each other up during the taping of Season 6
• Deleted Scenes: Six never-before-seen deleted scenes saved from the cutting room floor.

Broadcast Year: 2015

COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE FINAL SEASON? is not rated.

“ACADEMY AWARD^®” is the registered trademark and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; a global channel network; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of entertainment in more than 159 countries. For additional information, go tohttp://www.sonypictures.com/

READ MORE

The study group has finished six years at Greendale and the Dean arrives in a silly outfit to ensure that it's been a proper school year. Elroy leaves to go look up an old flame while the rest of the group heads out to a bar to celebrate. There, the group imagines what a hypothetical season seven would look while they discuss what exactly makes up Community. Abed imagines having Shirley back, while the Dean imagines she'll come back along with Elroy and a third black member of the group but things quickly escalate to him getting a bit racist. Chang's pitch involves the addition of an animated ice-cube-head character with superpowers.

Annie comes in and lets everyone know that she got a summer internship with the FBI and will be gone for the summer, leaving her return to Greendale following it to be unclear. Jeff then imagines the group with none of the original members except for himself. The new members are secondary characters previously seen attending Greendale and a cameo by Seth Green who is playing a millionaire who purchased the school. The thought makes Jeff reconsider his disdain for the season seven pitches and decide he wants to join in.

Jeff pitches a version of the show where Annie comes back to solve the double-murder of Britta's parents. Britta pitches a weirdly pretentious version where they're trying to save the world, dismantle the government, or something like that. Frankie imagines a dull version where everyone is ultra well-behaved and entirely on task. Jeff finally poses another pitch where Annie stays at Greendale as a teacher, which she seems keen on. It's then that Abed announces he's going to be moving to Los Angeles because he was offered a job on an upcoming FOX series. This causes Jeff to imagine a version of the show where there are many clones of Abed, which he proceeds to strangle one by one.

Jeff heads back to Greendale, where he imagines being settled down with Annie and they even have a child together. But it's then that this version of Annie points out that Jeff has no idea what it is that Annie wants for her future. Annie shows up to campus and Jeff notes that he wishes he could be young again and Annie wishes that she could be settled into a later stage of adulthood. The one thing they agree on is that the Marvel films are overrated. They kiss each other goodbye before the rest of the study group shows up. Frankie suggests that everyone imagine their own version of season seven but none of them can be cut to or else they won't come true. But they do show Jeff's, which involves being with a table of red-heads. Jeff expresses his joy at meeting everyone and they all share a group hug, with Chang tearfully proclaiming that he's "for-real-gay."

Jeff drives Annie and Abed to the airport, at which they will take off on their respective adventures. He then joins the rest of the remaining group members at the bar.

READ MORE

Greendale student Garrett proposes to his girlfriend Stacey in the middle of one of Jeff's classes. Abed is filming, as Garrett had asked him to film the proposal. Abed will continue to film all the way up through the wedding for a documentary. Annie and Britta invite Frankie over so they can all get ready together and Frankie is horrendously awkward until Jeff and Chang come crashing in, slightly drunk. The group enjoys playing a game but then realise they are late and nearly leave Chang and Abed behind. The group arrives in the middle of the wedding vows and creates quite a disruption as they arrive. At the reception, Garrett's mother scolds them for being rude and warns them to keep themselves in line. The group picks up their shattered pride and does their best to be ideal wedding guests in the best ways that they can. Jeff decides to do the best-man speech when Garrett's brother relapses. The group pools their resources from all the mingling they did at the wedding. Unfortunately, the speech accidentally leads to the revelation that the bride and groom have the same grandmother and are therefore first cousins. The group then realises that they are at their worst with each other. Chang rallies Garrett and Stacy to make their own decisions and that it's not their fault that their families were too screwed up for them to realise they were related. Seeing as how it's legal for them to marry their first cousins, they decide to stay together.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

Frankie is implementing a "Cleaner Greendale" initiative which forces those engaging in the school's paintball game underground. There's a "silver assassin" that is running things. Frankie implores Jeff to give a speech to tell people not to do it since he used to be in charge of it all. As it turns out, the entire rest of the group is still playing paintball and Jeff is forced to briefly play in order to protect the rest of the group. Jeff tries to get them to think about Frankie's best interest since she is their friend now so they agree to stop playing paintball and hunt down the silver assassin. But the group's investigation reveals that the best way to find them is to play as part of an undercover group. Britta and Elroy get into a shootout with the kitchen staff and the Dean is forced to take out an elevator full of participants when they corner him. Jeff ends up shooting a physically disabled student when he mistakenly thinks he's about to shoot Frankie. The Dean comes running in and accuses the custodian of being the one running the paintball scheme and that he plans to do so to help City College win and then he'll be able to take a job there. More custodians come running in and then an all-out paintball war ensues. One by one, members of the study group are taken out. Jeff and the Dean are the last ones left standing and they must go after the custodian. They end up in the Museum of Custodial Arts. The Dean nearly turns on Jeff after buying into the custodian's speech. Frankie walks in an promises not to fire anyone if they lower their guns. They do but after she leaves, they all shoot each other. The study group then has to dress up as baby and say baby lines, as well as promise to grow up in order for Frankie not to quit.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The group is on a road trip in Elroy's RV to deliver a giant fibreglass hand that Frankie is pushing the Dean to sell but the RV runs out of gas and they find themselves stranded on the side of the road. Abed is imagining the entire trip and events beforehand as a film that starts with them getting stranded and a 3-weeks-earlier flashback to show how they got there. The group can't get a tow truck to come get them because there's a parade going on monopolising them. The Dean gets berated by Jeff because he was foolish enough to buy this giant fibreglass hand with money that the school doesn't have. The RV's secondary battery dies because the group was foolish enough to keep charging their phones even after the RV died. That night, as the group stays inside the cold RV, they get into a large argument with the Dean who storms outside to sit on the giant fibreglass hand. Abed goes outside to sit with the Dean and then the fibreglass hand falls off the roof. The group goes to get the hand off the Dean but then it turns out he's not trapped under their. Instead he runs inside and locks everyone out. Jeff implored Abed to try to talk to the Dean but he's too distracted with his fixation on doing the flashback sequence. Frankie is able to get him to focus by making him imagine that where they currently are is the flashback and he has travelled back to help the group. Abed gives a rousing speech about the hand being symbolic of the power to hold on to each other. This gets the group to bond and the Dean comes out of the RV. Three days later, the group is shown to have held on to the fibreglass hand and put it on Greendale's campus with a wristband that shows, "Keep a loose grip." Chang also joins the group covered in feathers and proceeds to tell them how he came to be in that state.

The original buyer of the fibreglass hand is shown to be a man who is fixated on buying large objects, a habit only worsened due to his son's disappearance due to his receiving an oversized kite from his father.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The group decides to enrol in a class on grifting, but Jeff thinks it's a bad idea as he believe it will be scam. He ends up being right so they in turn are the ones that got grifted. They spent the entire class passing suitcases to each other back and forth. They tell Jeff they want to get back at the grifter and he tells them they should just cut their losses and move on. Jeff goes in to talk to the grifter, with whom he was initially going to side with, but once they get into an argument he decides to help the group enact revenge. Jeff's first few attempts to help the group are unsuccessful, making him all the more determined. Tensions continue to escalate until Britta ends up punching the grifter and he falls down the stairs and is seriously injured. The school must pay him off and there is even a brief talk of expelling Britta for pushing him but they decide against it. It is then revealed that Britta struck up a deal with the grifter for them to fake the confrontation, injury, and split the money. Britta did it to get him out of the school and makes plans with him to meet up at a hotel later. But as he's wheeling away, it's revealed that the group swapped out the real suitcase. The whole class then parades around with suitcases in hand so the grifter has no real way of knowing who it is. The grifter tries to claim that they stole his money to the campus security and he is revealed as a fraud because he's walking around even though he had claimed to be injured. Also, the entire group feigns ignorance as to how he got these fake injuries. Jeff presses the grifter into deciding as to whether admit that he got grifted or get in trouble. He of course admits that he gets grifted and is fired as a professor of Greendale.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

Following his success in the theatre production of The Karate Kid, Chang lands a part in a commercial for Kolb Family Foods and his work in the commercial becomes a viral hit. As the famous "Ham Girl" guy, he decides to head to Hollywood. Now that he is a bit hit, he begins to trash-talk the gang, claiming he had no friends and was just a loner. The group decides to cash in on his fame when Abed announces he has footage from a film he was shooting with Chang called Police Justice. They need to finish the film though and decide to do so by making the cop drama into a sci-fi film. Frankie puts the group in touch with a film producer named Maury who promises to be able to turn the film into a profitable hit for them.

Abed finally agrees to direct the film into Chief Starr and the Raiders of the Galaxy by incorporating outtake audio samples as well as recycled footage of Chang as Chief Starr. The Dean is standing in as Chang's stand-in body double. Jeff plays the mayor of outer space and Britta plays Princess Meridian (though Britta wants her to be called Brittana). Annie also stars by playing Scorpio 9, a pleasure droid assassin.

Abed is discouraged by the group's lack of interest in making the film of a high quality and Jeff pushes him to just keep up the quick pace so the film can be finished in a timely manner. This is successful but as the final cut is 87 minutes and the film needs to be cut to 81 minutes, Jeff's big scene gets cut. This leads to Jeff having an identity crisis as he begins to realise that he will be the last one of the group to leave Greendale. Abed offers up a pep talk to Jeff and though Abed offers to cut other parts, Jeff insists they cut his death scene (though they end up adding an added 30 seconds to the film).

Unfortunately, Maury delivers the bad news that the company funding the film has gone bankrupt because of YouTube so the film will not be distributed. Also, Chang gets kicked out of Hollywood for talking back to Steven Spielberg, after which he is promptly replaced by Randall Park. This forces him to go crawling back to Greendale.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The group is planning an alumni dinner and during the meeting, Chang goes on a bizarre tangent about knowing how to use PowerPoint. Meanwhile, the Dean falls prey to some guerrilla tactics employed by Honda so Frankie needs to freezie-weezie the school's assets for the time being. Britta and Annie note how Elroy doesn't seem to like the new group and they lament no longer having Troy in the group so Jeff plants the seed that Troy's ability to play steel drums was integral to why he was so special.

Britta's ex-boyfriend Rick, AKA Subway, is back in town and Annie gives her a warning so she can keep herself from spiralling down that black hole. Unfortunately, she proceeds to go running off to find him and Britta greets him with some face-slaps. He pleads his case and the two end up hooking up in the back of his Honda. He claims that he can pursue a real relationship with her but she has to hide when the Dean shows up (the Dean has bought a Honda and is apparently a 'Level-7 Susceptible' to guerrilla tactic advertising).

The rest of the group plays a game of The Ears Have It! in order to bond with Elroy and better integrate him into their group dynamics. Though he bonds with a majority of the group, it turns out that it's Jeff that he is unable or perhaps uninterested with bonding with.

Britt unintentionally meets Rick's Honda Boss, who allows them to pursue a relationship if they will work together to implement this guerrilla tactic for Honda. It's not clear why she agrees to it, perhaps falling under the influence of the advertising herself. Frankie figures out that the new kid, Rick, is the one who is responsible for all this Honda advertising. Britta has brought Rick home to meet her parents but becomes perturbed when he tries to use the tactics on her parents and also insists on liking Avatar simply because it is an enormously popular film. She later breaks up with him because she wants to be with "the real him" but he claims that this is who he is.

Jeff hires the band Natalie is Freezing for the alumni dance to play the song "Pillar of Garbage" and Elroy becomes furious. Elroy later admits to Britta that he used to date the band's lead singer Julie and she messed him up pretty good. Jeff had tried to hire the band in order to make Elroy like him but it backfired. Rick shows up saying that he'll quit his job at Honda for Britta and that he loves her. She is overjoyed. Rick says he wants to do one last job when he hears Frankie baiting him and Britta realises that she can't be with him. Rick is removed from campus due to the trap Frankie and the Dean set.

Elroy patches things up with Julie and when Jeff tells him he wants them to be friends, Elroy says he likes him but that they'll never be friends. Then, the Honda Boss employs another failed attempt at disappearing mysteriously, and Frankie playing steel drums on stage with Natalie is Freezing at the alumni dinner. Britta goes to play a game of The Ears Have It! with her parents to take her mind off of her break-up with Rick but their ability to ask eerily specific questions and win immediately only annoys her and she storms off in a huff.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The school's system gets hacked and the hacker threatens to publish emails that would reflect badly on Greendale unless an appearance of a racist comic is cancelled. The e-mails are released and everyone reads highlights of it. A cyber crimes unit is called in to investigate and the group decides they need to work on it too though the hacker is threatening next to unleash the secrets of the activities group.

They hold a press conference to say that the performance will go on as planned, as a matter of principle. As promised, the group's e-mails have been leaked. The group gets into arguments because they all read each other's leaked e-mails even though they promised not to. The only one who did as he was supposed to was Abed. They all fight over the rude things they've said about and done to each other. After a series of fights in the group, Abed tries to read the content in order to fit in but doesn't find any of the bad stuff.

The arguments are broken up by the arrival of the Dean who has brought the racist comedian, Gupta. The group proposes that they've done the right thing once Gupti thanks them for not cancelling on them. They decide that this time the hackers haven't won. The hacker sends another message threatening that everyone's information will be leaked if the show isn't stopped. Britta and the rest of the gang forces Gupta to go on stage and he proceeds to spout all his racist jokes while the rest of the group keeps an angry mob out. It's then that everyone's information is released.

The group reflects on all that has happened and tries to figure out what lesson they've learned from all of this, brainstorming on it all. They're interrupted by the local police officer who has brought the hacker, a young boy who lived across the street from campus. After the boy is taken away, the group decides the lesson to be learned is that crime doesn't pay. They then apologise to one another for the things they have done.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

Frankie brings news that Greendale can make some more money if they allow prisoners to attend the school through the use of telepresence robots because the government is offering a $300,000 incentive. One of the convicts in Jeff's class tries to murder him by pushing him down some stairs but it doesn't work since the telepresence robot lacks the type of strength to be able to send Jeff flying.

Britta wants to throw a party but Annie is forbidding it since Britta hasn't been living there long enough to make those types of decisions within the apartment. Since Abed has been living there longer than Annie, Britta tries to convince him to overrule Annie's decision but he isn't all that interested in making that happen. Britta gets Abed to get the party happen by spinning it as a film project for Abed involving a party that breaks all of Annie's rules. Annie ominously warns Britta that before this is all over, she will beg for Annie's forgiveness.

Jeff tries to tell the Dean that Willie tried to murder him but Willie is already chatting to the Dean to tell on Jeff for half-assing his duties as a teacher. Jeff's feud with Willie escalates until Jeff pushes Willie's telepresence robot down the stairs. The Dean has made friends with Willie by this point so Jeff is reprimanded.

Annie convinces Abed to relentlessly film his movie which means a never-ending party for Britta. Britta is forced to beg Annie for forgiveness and tell Abed that parties and his film are stupid. Abed is hurt but stops the party.

The Dean is preparing to hire Willie to work at Greendale so Jeff shows up using a telepresence robot. He gives a heartfelt(ish) apology to the Dean and Willie is revealed to not actually be a murderer but a wrongfully convicted prisoner. Willie is infuriated to have lost his credibility as a scary criminal and gets into a fight with Jeff on his telepresence robot which ends when the Dean shuts him off. The rehabilitation program is aborted but the group enjoys using the telepresence robots.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

Chang is preparing to audition for a theatre production of "The Karate Kid" and the rest of the gang is upset by the fact that the school's wifi is broken. They push the Dean to get it fixed and he pushes the responsibility onto Frankie. The Dean is later offered the opportunity to be on the school board but it's more so because the current members need a token homosexual to make themselves look better and more tolerant.

When Abed and Elroy find the router, they find a bird's nest there. Abed doesn't want it moved because the mother won't come back if they do. Elroy relents to Abed's wishes and refuses to work on the wifi until the bird's nest leaves and the Dean supports their decision upon learning of it.

Chang goes to his audition and Annie tags along as support. The director asks Annie to read the part of Daniel and Chang to read as Mr. Miyagi and proceeds to cast them as such. The director consistently berates and degrades Chang for apparently being a bad actor and praises Annie for anything and everything she does. Annie feels bad about Chang's treatment but doesn't want to make waves in such a way that would make her lose the part. Annie eventually threatens to walk out if the director doesn't start treating Chang better but the director is fine with the notion of her doing so, saying that the Karate Kid is actually all about Miyagi's story. He goes on to say that he cast Annie because she has the right measurements to reuse last year's wardrobe, whereas Chang was cast because he has the sadness and talent that could make the show great with the right guidance. He says he's been nice to Annie because she's not capable of any better than what she's been giving. Annie is fired from the play.

The Dean seeks the council of Frankie and Jeff on whether he should take the position on the school board if it means making his still-unspecified sexuality a token. He decides to take it but begins to feel like a joke upon doing so but also is touched when a gay student tells him he's inspired by his coming out and being a successful gay man. The Dean gets in trouble from the school board for not fixing the wi-fi just because of a bird's nest. He proceeds to call security to try to get Abed and Elroy to move. They're forced to relent and tend to the nest themselves, allowing the birds to hatch. Unfortunately, the majority of the birds do not survive. The Dean continues to feel conflicted, despite the inspiration he has provided to gay students. He calls a press conference to say that he is not "gay," but a politician. He hopes that people can accept an openly political person on the board and walks out. After that, he is kicked off the board.

The dean has to make amends with the group and learns that all but one of the birds is dead. The group heads out to see Chang act in the stage version of the Karate Kid. Annie is jealous over being replaced but as the play carries on, the entire audience (including the group) is highly moved by the play and Chang's performance. Finally, the group gathers around while Abed prepares to release the lone surviving bird from the nest. It flies off into the distance before landing on the school's generator to presumably start a nest of its own there.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The Dean purchases a $5,000 virtual reality system that he is enjoying but Frankie and Jeff are astounded by his irresponsibility. They have him navigate through the system to find the serial number so they can try to return it. The Dean doesn't want to return it so with a great deal of effort, he deletes the serial number within the system.

Britta is going to move into Annie and Abed's place and becomes suspicious when she arrives and finds a new sofa with her name on it. She then learns that her parents had reached out to Annie and Abed to supplement her rent. Britta is furious, claiming her parents are awful though Annie and Abed say they were very nice. Meanwhile, Chang is running around delirious, having suffered from a severe cat bite on his hand.

Britta tells Jeff about her parents and Jeff said they have paid off all the money she owes them so if she owes anyone money it's them. Britta claims she has no friends and Chang still hasn't found his way to the nurse and his hand is swelling up fast.

Jeff makes it to the inventor of the virtual reality system, Elroy Patashnik, who is living in his trailer. Elroy won't give the money back when Jeff says there's no serial number left and that it feels better to stop lying for a living.

Britta returns home to give her parents money on a check postdated for a year from now. They're nothing but loving and supporting but Britta resents them for how strict and micromanaging they were when she was younger. They were apparently out of it in her youth. Britta is further angered when she realises Annie and Abed are hiding in her parents' living room. Britta tries to run off but her car is broken so she steals a kid's bike and her parents pay the kid off for the trouble.

Elroy then shows up to tell Dean Pelton that the system is lame and to issue a refund. Elroy then says he's going in after Dean Pelton and pulls out his own equipment to get into the system. He baits Dean Pelton with the promise of power to manipulate worlds while Jeff pulls the system off of him. Once the Dean has returned to normal, he gives Elroy a $500 check and plants the seed to get him to eventually enlist in a class(es) at Greendale, which makes Jeff ponder at who he'll never get out of there.

Frankie returns to her car and finds Britta sleeping in the back seat. She tells Britta that they must all learn the hard lesson that their parents are only human. Annie then returns home to patch things up with her parents and Chang arrives shortly thereafter to ask for help about his hand.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

After a disastrous roof-collapsing incident at Greendale, Deal Pelton hires Francesca "Frankie" Dart as a consultant to help improve the school. She's no-nonsense and has very clear ideas on what needs to be done but our favourite study group isn't fond of her methods. Jeff is mad at her getting rid of the liquor, Britta is mad she's insulting her ability to run Shirley's sandwich shop, and Annie is annoyed that Frankie is vastly more efficient than she is. Jeff notes that fixing things too much would make Greendale stop being Greendale. She seems to get on well with Abed, though. The group wants to band together against Frankie, and they ignore Abed's suggestion that they're just overreacting to change. He won't join their secret committee against Frankie. Britta starts to sell booze at the sandwich shop while Abed agrees to work with Frankie to "save Greendale." Abed visits the Sandwich Shop and is sent to the back where he finds that the gang has set up a roaring-1920s bar. The gang is happy that they've raised enough money to save Shirley's shop. Abed is happy to be back with his friends and enjoys some drinks with them. The next day when he returns to work with Frankie, she becomes concerned that his work isn't as good. Abed returns to the bar to enjoy time with his friends and then Frankie comes barging in. As it turns out, she knew about the bar the whole time but she then scolds them for getting Abed involved and claims he deserves better. She also claims he doesn't know any better and it's clear that she's dropped the ball. She has no one on her side now so everyone on campus proceeds to drink and celebrate, doing just as they please. Frankie leaves the school and then Greendale is left without insurance but Jeff tells Dean Pelton to just use what was her salary to cover the cost. But the drunken shenanigans begin to lead to people getting injured. With the medical bills and lawsuits, the group realises they need to buckle down and be serious. Jeff and Abed go hunt down Frankie at her job application and they give her a "montage" of apologies along with the promise that she won't be making much working at Greendale but she agrees to come back, particularly since the job she was interviewing for wasn't about to hire her anyway. She brings out her binder and prepares to implement various plans to save the school.

Community airs on Tuesdays on Yahoo.

READ MORE

The Save Greendale Committee is meeting and Annie welcomes Chang, their newest member. Each member receives a massive packet of Greendale's latest emergencies and Britta is angry about so much paper being wasted. They begin talking about "Bloodlines of Conquest," an HBO medieval fantasy series based on a book series (this is clearly a parody of Game of Thrones). Britta is mad about he mention of dragons because she does want spoilers, stating that she only begins watching shows when they are so popular that it no longer makes a statement. When Abed mentions the death of a character, Britta becomes angry, threatening to go ahead and read the books thereby spoiling the show's plot. Abed retorts that that is something an insane person would do. Annie assigned Abed and Britta to update the student census. Annie asks who wants to be on the decorating committee for the midterm dance happening that night. No one is interested until Annie assigns the task to herself, after which everyone offers to join in on the task. She asks everyone if they are only volunteering because they think she will do all the work and everyone lies and says no, except for Professor Buzz Hicky, whose honesty is rewarded with a seemingly easy task: re-hanging a bulletin board that fell down. The meeting is adjourned and Annie states that for every completed task, a star will be posted on the task wall. She goes to put the first task "Have a productive meeting," on the wall but her hand goes through the wall and a bird flies out. Roll opening credits.

Britta has begun reading the books and attempts to spoil the plot for Abed but is unable to do so since he is wearing some serious sound-blocking headphones. Hicky visits the janitor to obtain a drill, a few screws, and a bulletin board but the janitor only tells him that if he wants to hang a bulletin board, he will have to get a work order. Abed approaches a girl to fill out the census but tells her not to speak since he can't hear (because of his headphones). She signs back to him that she can't hear either. He asks if she is deaf and reading lips and she signs back that she is. He spouts some gibberish and tells her she is good since she couldn't understand it. He also signs gibberish to her and the girl smiles and walks off. Britta asks if he is going to have another intense burst of compatibility with a girl that they'll end up never seeing again and he replies that he can't hear her and signs "Banana."

Annie tries to come up with a theme and no one appears interested in helping with suggestions except for Chang, but Annie snaps that his last idea was "murder." Hicky comes in to tell Annie that the bulletin board is a no-go, and she gently taunts his inability to get the simple task done. He states that he knows when to walk away after a life-time of experience with red tape. The taunting continues and Hicky dares her to get it done. She accepts the challenge and slides her massive book of ideas across the table, saying that she is now on bulletin board duty. Everyone else is now in charge of the dance.

Annie and Hicky go down to visit the custodians and charms them with her knowledge of their names and facts about their lives. One puts a work order in for her and states that it should be ready within three to six months. But when she tries to bump up her placement, she insults them by not knowing the difference between janitors and custodians. Hicky tells her he expects she'll give up before being able to get the bulletin board up and she tells him game on.

Abed spots Britta spying on him as he approaches his locker. He goes to open the locker and immediately steps away as a banner drops out with a spoiler written on it. Britta is angry by her foiled plan. He signs "Nice try" to her and she tells him it isn't over. He then signs, "Sandals. Sandals," as she walks away.

Annie visits a custodian party but is turned away despite her attempt to use her knowledge of facts on one custodian's family. Hicky manages to get them in by noting that one of their possessions is not up to code. They are introduced to head custodian, Bob Waite, played by the legendary Nathan Fillion! Waite knows that they're there about the bulletin board and Waite tells them they want their porn sites unblocked at work. Annie remains determined but Hicky doesn't think it'll be worth it.

Abed meets the deaf girl again and signs, "I learned how to say this in sign language." She signs back that he learns quick and that he shouldn't forget that she can read lips but he replies each time with the same and only phrase he knows how to sign.

In the cafeteria, the rest of the gang is still trying to come up with a theme for the dance. Chang suggests the play on words: "Bear down for midterms." The gang is confused and not at all keen on the silly idea but Chang become insistent and eventually emotional, stating that he has paid for his crimes and wants to be taken seriously. He also asks if their dismissal is "a racial thing," to which they all insist that it isn't. To cease his hysterics, they agree to use his theme. They begin making decorations and despite the idea being terrible, they keep at it to keep Chang from getting emotional yet again.

Annie and Hicky meet with a woman in the IT department, and try to bribe her to unblock the porn sites for the custodians. She asks for better parking and Annie tells her that if they do this, everything must get through. When she asks what she means by everything, Annie roars back, "EVERYTHING!" They meet with a parking guy and he wants control over all the bulletin boards from the Dean. Annie and Hicky meet with the Dean who agrees to the idea on the condition that Hicky say the phrase, "Easy peasy lemon squeezy." Hicky refuses to compromise and gets in a fight with Annie. He thinks that she is compromising her integrity and she begins to feel guilty.

Abed and the deaf girl sign to each other a conversation about what Ewoks sound like.

A fellow delivers some sodas is horrified by the dance theme, telling them that a bear broke loose that morning at a kid's birthday party in Wisconsin, mauling several people. Apparently the story has been all over the news. Jeff, Shirley, and Professor are embarrassed and Chang tells them that that must have been where he got the theme from. Later, Annie joins the group to find the theme, "Fat Dog For Midterms." In an effort to salvage their mistakes, they have put bigger ears on all the bears to transform them into dogs. When she expresses confusion over the theme, the gang all employs the same tactics Change had previously used on them, including the "racial thing." She agrees to go along with the idea.

At the dance, Abed and the deaf girl are still hanging out. He signs that their day together has been great. She agrees and continues on to sign that sometimes good days can turn ugly. She compares it to a massacre that takes place on "Bloodlines of Conquest," (the massacre being an obvious parody of the infamous "Red Wedding"). In the Community-verse, this plot bunny is how the last book ends. Britta comes over and thanks her, incorrectly signing "Sugar," and gives her some cash. Abed is deeply saddened and removes his headphones. Britta gloats but then feels guilty after seeing how truly upset Abed is. Abed leaves the dance and sees the same coat check girl, Rachel, he once had a fling with. He apologises for not calling and when she asks him out to lunch, he says no and that he would rather go out for dinner with her right then. They leave together.

A montage of various characters begins. Annie looks sadly at the empty space for the bulletin board. Hicky sulks and looks at his own bulletin board on which there are several documents including a parking ticket, a restraining order, and a newspaper clipping about him being a disgraced cop. Waite tries to access a porn site and is frustrated by its still being blocked. The IT lady researches buying a bike as a solution to her poor parking dilemma. Abed and Rachel eat popcorn and watch television together. Hicky removes all documents from his bulletin board and heads to the dance. He puts it up and drills it to the board. Annie looks on in admiration and when the Dean brings security in to reprimand him, Annie attacks them. The Dean decides against pushing forward with disciplinary action and Hicky thanks Annie for defending him. The dance continues with Chang teaching a Fat Dog dance that he insist isn't made up. One student accidentally knocks the dog ears off one of the decorations and screams that it's a Bear Dance.

In the final scene, we see Professor Duncan runs out of staples and attempts to call a hotline for more. He accidentally initiates Arcadia before getting flustered and hanging up. He hears jet planes fly overhead before finding more staples on his desk.

Community airs on Thursdays on NBC at 8/7c.

READ MORE